I think that anything you feel strange or nervous about, you weren't cut out to do.

I don't judge people by their bodies. Even when I was a young girl I liked men for their minds. Now that I'm middle-aged I see how right I was.

Houses! I hate houses. I like public places. Houses break your heart.

I feel that I have done everything, absolutely everything wrong, but perhaps something nice will happen anyway.

Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.

It may be true that the government that governs best governs least Unfortunately, the same is also true of the government that governs worst.

A guardian angel comes when you are very young, and gives you special dispensation. From what? From the world. Yours might be luck. Mine is money.

Sometimes when a man gets older he has a revelation and wants awfully bad to get back to the place where he left his life, but he can't get to that place- not often.

Sisterly love is one of the few boons in this life.

Victory fades so quickly that it is scarcely apparent and it is always the face of defeat that we are able to see.

I fear nomads. I am afraid of them and afraid for them too.

Writing fiction feels like an adventurous act, nudging aside reality a word at a time.

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

I'll get pretty much everything the way I want it. I've always dreamed of a beach wedding.

Only the blood of Jesus can cleanse us, yet if we withhold ourselves from that blood, we will be unclean forever.

Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is.

When you feel helpless, help someone.

Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill bred it is!

The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too.

The head coach tells us what to do, and we follow his orders.

America has to be not just an idea but a living, breathing thing.